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- Title
- State-trace analysis of the Face Inversion Effect
- Author/Creator
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Prince, Melissa;
Heathcote, Andrew
- Institution
- The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Science & Information Technology, School of Psychology
- Description
- The Face Inversion Effect (FIE), the finding that inversion disproportionately affects face recognition, is one of the primary pieces of evidence suggesting that faces are encoded in a qualitatively different way to other stimuli (e.g., along configural as well as featural dimensions). However, when Loftus, Oberg and Dillon (2004) tested the FIE using state-trace analysis (Bamber, 1979), they found evidence for a one dimensional encoding of unfamiliar faces when inversion only occurred during the study phase of a recognition memory test. We report experimental results that replicate Loftus et al.’s findings and rule out several potential problems with their experimental manipulations and state-trace analysis.
- Relation
- 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2009). CogSci 2009 Proceedings (Amsterdam, Netherlands 29 July - 1 August, 2009) p. 685-690
- Relation
- http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/Proceedings/2009/papers/121/index.html
- Date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cognitive Science Society
- Keyword(s)
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Face Inversion Effect;
recognition memory;
state-trace analysis
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/919805
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780976831853
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